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EMMA: ... into the stupidest thing you ever said ever, which you then wear round your neck...
Richard Branson has made a fortune attaching his company's name to everything from music stores (Virgin Megastores) to airlines (Virgin Atlantic) to bridal wear (Virgin Brides). Now he's tackling consumer electronics with Virgin Pulse, a series of sleek, low-cost gadgets. The $449 portable TV/DVD player (above) features a 10in. flat screen. An optional car adapter and carrying case let you watch movies on those long road trips. There's also a $50 pair of two-way radios (left) and a compact AM/FM radio with TV tuner for $35. Cordless phones, CD and MP3 players...
...gain weight on a strenuous biking trip," says Summerell, a clinical psychologist from Plattsburgh, N.Y., "but the meals are so wonderful--multicourses, lots of wine, great desserts--that I actually did come home from one bike trip to Italy and couldn't get into a dress I needed to wear to a wedding...
...Hinks ’06 shows herself to be one of Harvard’s better student actors, speaking crisply and radiating both disdain for the mortals with whom she must associate and a sadistic pleasure in watching them torment themselves. She is also lucky enough to get to wear a different gorgeous costume, designed by Jane van Cleef ’06, in each of her appearances. The chorus of minions are sufficiently alien and demonic, although it was impossible to hear any of their dialogue, which was spoken in overlapping snippets or in not-quite-unison. The play...
...head scarves entirely, while others have no problem with them. Still others, like Henri-Wallon, allow what history and geography teacher Philippe Darriulat calls a "compromise scarf" that leaves the head only partially covered. (That's the one the other dozen students in the school are allowed to wear.) But Lila and her 16-year-old sister wear a hijab that covers everything except the face, which officials at Henri-Wallon say is provocative. Lila, 18, points out that the sisters had already agreed to modify their dress, wearing light-colored scarves that tie at the back of the head...